Last year, Duduzane Zuma was charged over an allegation that he and his business partners, the Guptas, offered a $43.3m (£33.2m) bribe to ANC MP Mcebisi Jonas with the intention that he would take the job of finance minister.

He turned them down.

Prosecuting Authority’s Phindi Mjonondwane told reporters that he was not receiving preferential treatment.

The NPA provisionally withdrew the charges because they did not want to run a parallel process alongside an official inquiry which is also investigating the awarding of government contracts to the Guptas.

Duduzane Zuma, who was wearing a dark suit and tie, was accompanied by his father.

They both walked out of court smiling with their thumbs up and drove off in a motorcade of black SUVs.

But Duduzane Zuma is not completely out of the woods yet.

In another court, a trial date was set for 26 March for a culpable homicide case where he is accused of negligent driving, after a female passenger died when his sports car crashed into the rear of a minibus taxi in 2014.